This document discusses the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM), including what it can do, who uses it, terminology, database location, common operations like install, uninstall, query, and upgrade, and various options for those operations. RPM is used to install, manage, and uninstall software packages on Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS and other Linux distributions. It allows adding, removing, upgrading and verifying packages and their dependencies.

1. RPM Redhat Package Manager T Shrinivasan [email_address]

2. Install Packages Source Compilation

3. Installpkg

4. Rpm

5. dpkg

6. What RPM can do? Install

7. Remove

8. Query

9. Verify

10. Upgrade

11. Who use it? Redhat

12. Fedora

13. CentOS

14. Mandriva

15. SuSE

16. ...

17. RPM Terminology kernel-smp-2.4.18-3.athlon.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.18-3.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.18-3.i686.rpm kernel-source-2.4.18-3.i386.rpm rootfiles-7.2-1.noarch.rpm name-version-release.architecture.rpm

18. RPM Database Dir : /var/lib/rpm # cd /var/lib/rpm # ls total 3534 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1351680 Oct 17 10:35 fileindex.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Oct 17 10:35 groupindex.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Oct 17 10:35 nameindex.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2342536 Oct 17 10:35 packages.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Oct 17 10:35 providesindex.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Oct 17 10:35 requiredby.rpm #

19. Operations

20. Some Commands rpm -U filename.rpm rpm -i xcopilot-0.6.6-3.i386.rpm rpm -U xcopilot-0.6.6-3.i386.rpm

21. rpm -Uhv xcopilot-0.6.6-3.i386.rpm

22. rpm –e package_name

23. rpm –qa | more

24. Install Performing dependency checks.

25. Checking for conflicts.

26. Performing any tasks required before the install.

27. Deciding what to do with config files.

28. Unpacking files from the package and putting them in the proper place.

29. Performing any tasks required after the install.

30. Keeping track of what it did.

31. Install Options

32. Examples # rpm -ivv eject-1.2-2.i386.rpm D: installing eject-1.2-2.i386.rpm Installing eject-1.2-2.i386.rpm D: package: eject-1.2-2 files test = 0 D: running preinstall script (if any) D: setting file owners and groups by name (not id) D: ///usr/bin/eject owned by root (0), group root (0) mode 755 D: ///usr/man/man1/eject.1 owned by root (0), group root (0) mode 644 D: running postinstall script (if any) #

33. Examples # rpm -i --test rpm-2.0.11-1.i386.rpm /bin/rpm conflicts with file from rpm-2.3-1 /usr/bin/gendiff conflicts with file from rpm-2.3-1 /usr/bin/rpm2cpio conflicts with file from rpm-2.3-1 /usr/bin/rpmconvert conflicts with file from rpm-2.3-1 /usr/man/man8/rpm.8 conflicts with file from rpm-2.3-1 error: rpm-2.0.11-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed #